299 p. : 24 cm

Earlier versions of all except one essay were presented at the symposium on "The Recovery of Religious Identity in the Soviet Union" held at Arizona State University in Mar. 1991

Includes bibliographical references and index

The life and work of Father Aleksandr Men' / Michael A. Meerson -- Dvoeverie and popular religion / Eve Levin -- The wages of sin : the decline of public penance in Imperial Russia / Gregory L. Freeze -- Popular piety, local initiative, and the founding of women's religious communities in Russia, 1764-1907 / Brenda Meehan -- The schism and cultural conflict in the seventeenth century / Boris A. Uspensky -- Interpreting the fate of Old Believer communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Robert O. Crummey -- An architecture of change : Old Believer liturgical spaces in late Imperial Russia / Roy R. Robson -- The third rebirth of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church and the religious situation in Ukraine, 1989-1991 / Frank E. Sysyn -- Reflections on the current state of the Georgian church and nation / Fairy von Lilienfeld

(cont.) The contemporary politics of the Russian Bible : religious publication in a period of glasnost / Stephen K. Batalden -- Orthodox pilgrimage and Russian landholding in Jerusalem : the British Colonial record / Stephen K. Batalden and Michael D. Palma -- Using Vatican archives in the study of Eastern Christianity / Charles Frazee

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